Re: ABI guarantee for auditd

hsultan
2015-01-15T22:34:16Z

On 2015-01-15 12:44, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:24:38 PM hsultan@thefroid.net wrote:
>> Regarding auditd, what is the ABI guarantee ? Do you guarantee that
>> the
>> text contained in audit_reply->msg.data will always be the same
>> format ?
>> I imagine you reserve the right to add fields, but how about
>> removing
>> any or even reordering them ?
>
> Its happens on occasion. Requirements change, bugs are found, new
> features
> asked for.

Thanks, that tells me most of what I need, one last thing : do you
happen to know if the 'big' distribs(Ubuntu,RH,CentOS,Debian...) ship
those format changes only in new releases of their distribs, or do they
include them in patches for existing releases as well ?

Thanks,

Hassan